maetzner's

Updated: January 10, 2026

And here we may bring in the 'stock'-dove, as being the 'stock' or stirps of the domestic kinds. Neither does this fact in the least invalidate our assertion. We have in them, as Cobbett expresses it well, the same combination of letters, but not the same word. Dict.; Kock's Historical Grammar of the English Language, vol. i. p. 223; Maetzner's Engl.

Richard Chenevix Trench - On the Study of Words